Abstract

In previous papers, we revisited the Dirac equation and conjectured that the electron can be viewed as a massless charge spinning at light speed, this internal motion being responsible for the rest mass involved in external motions and interactions. Implications of this concept on basic properties such as time, space, electric charge, and magnetic moment were considered. The present paper investigates the deviations of the resulting gyromagnetic factor, fine-structure constant, and gravitational invariant from their integer approximates, and their implication in a better understanding of the electromagnetic, gravitational, and other interactions.

It seems that Catalan numbers were known in the Antiquity. Not only the conspicuous 3 and 7 and their sum 10 (and various products and multiples), which occur in many traditions, but also 127 (the number of provinces in Ahasuerus’ empire, cf Esther1, 1) and the sum 137 (the number of years Abraham’s elder son lived, cf Genesis25, 17). The hypostyle room of Ammon’s temple in Karnak, Egypt, has a total of 136 columns, the number that Eddington initially proposed for the electric constant a [22]Google Scholar